So Gears 4 Beta

It isn't a looker, its true. But damn it is a lot of fun. I was on a couple hours tonight and had a blast which brings me to my question: Are any of you playing? Do you want to play together at some point?

I would but I don't like the Gears games (I know boo me) but good luck finding people.

@i_p_daily: All good

Yeah I loved it, they nailed the overall feel and I was owning people with the shotgun. The hit detection just felt a lot better than UE overall. Getting more excited for this game now, you're right about the graphics actually they made me chuckle, clearly they are missing textures though for the beta so its all good I'm sure the final product will be nice.

Don't really have time to party with others I just put in a few quick random games in between breaks of Dark Souls 3 and Quantum break. But hopefully I can reach level 20, you get in-game freebees if you do I think.

I still don´t have my codes.

@raugutcon: I read there was some kind of screw up with the codes, in terms of chronological order of who should get them first. I saw on my Twitter feed a few min ago that they already sent out the codes for Today though, maybe you got in.

Anyways, the beta will apparently be open to all as of April 25-May 1st.

Owning people with the Shotgun is exactly what the GeoW games have always been about, I was hoping for a reversal on that with the brand new developer making GeoW 4.

I was making a point of trying to get kills with weapons other than shotgun.

@cainetao11: The hammerburst is pretty neat, I tried that too.....I'm prefer it over the Lancer overall. Only played a little so will try the other weapons next time....which one is your favorite so far?

As a Gears 1 vet, I hate the beta so far. The shotgun is way too slow on start up time, it reminds me of Gears 2 (The worst entry imo). The movement, weapons, everything just feels much slower, even the pace of the game. Also, the size of the maps ( no comment is needed, compare canals to foundation or clocktower to harbor). Im happy to see others enjoying it because I obviously want the franchise to do well, but it feels too similar to Gears 2. Just my two cents. Game on, folks.

@TurboGraphix: I played a few more matches and I agree character movement is a little slow, I hope they improve that. I was hoping they would somehow change/improve the roadie run, it's one of my favorite aspects of the game, but it seems identical to before. Gonna play some more and probably go give them feedback.

I just got my code today, installing now. I suck at the game though so I don't expect to enjoy it.

I liked the Hammerburst from Gears 3 where it was semi auto, single shot. I wish I had a fire mode option to turn off burst. Cant say I have a favorite right now. I miss the retro lancer though.

It's terrible. They should have went back to Gears 1 style instead of the Gears 3/Judgement source code they used. It's to fast paced and everything is overpowered. The only good thing is the Lancer is finally a useful weapon. Weapons/shots being off-center is dumb, the shotgun has to much range, the blast radius on explosions is to big, it feels like someone tried to make a Gears of War game but only came close enough for it to feel like a generic rip-off.

Give them your feedback. I don't find anything about it terrible.

So I didn't play tonight because its finals week. But I cant sleep so I have twitch on and I am jumping between Gears beta streams. There are so many people that blame the game when they get killed. I'm watching them. "This game is f**king retarded". Man, gamers are cry babies. You are getting beat, deal with it. Get good. Blaming the game isn't going to change it.

Game is awesome. For me, the boltok, normal pistol, hammerburst and lancer should have damage bigger, because you need to fire too much to kill an enemy.

Im waiting for the full game.

It's still in pre-alpha, the game is 6 months out. It will look better when it's released.

Maybe so. I'm not driven away from a game by graphics anyway. Its the act of playing that contains the fun. And the beta had that. Still going to wait to see what the campaign comes out to be.

Yeah I played it over the last two days and I have to admit it's pretty fun. I got my rewards for getting to level 20. I need to play a lot more Gears over the summer to get a lot better. lol

@Alucard_Prime: yeah the first thing I noticed was the movement, its slow. The roadie run seems funny I was always crack up. the roadie run was good in g1, but as usual every new gears iteration they keep straying from the first. They have months to tweak and fix it, that feedback thread is pretty awesome. More devs should have it.

The day I posted I still didn´t have my code it was there when I got home, I had the plan of playing pretty much until my X1 melted but unfortunately I was able to play only a few matches ( I had too much work during those days ), had a lot of fun during those matches, I find the Lancer to be a little bit over powered compared to other Gears games, I didn´t feel the Gnasher to have too much range, the Snub Pistol was fine and I liked the addition of the drop whatever was called ( yeah the one that launches those explosives ), I liked the targeting system of the bow, I usually suck at it in other Gears.

So yes, I liked it and as soon as UC4 is out ( and I have finished to pay it ) I´ll preorder GOW4.

The GeoW4 beta was glitchy.

@raugutcon: I Loved it, I fine balance of gameplay, and they haven't altered the mechanics of it which made it good in previous editions, what I liked aswell was there wasn't any silly new weapons that has being added, ive being playing gears 3 a lot and its good fun still.